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The larger purpose of this library is to provide student high quality books to assist them with the 6+1 traits to improve their writing. This library also consists of diverse authors and perspectives to help students feel represented in the classroom library.

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This story shows how an author's unique voice being exhibited

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By Louis Sachar
This text helps display the power of word choice and how it enriches writing. It also shows how "casual language" can be incorporated into select forms of writing

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This text shows how powerful, rich word choice can convey the meaning you are trying to send and allow the reader to create a better image of what's on the page

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By Nic Stone

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This text shows how to present your writing in a formal, clean cut way while also presenting interesting ideas

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By Lois Lowry

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This text includes an organizational structure that can be shown to students as a model for how to organize writing

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by William Goulding

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This text shows how what you hear from the page is important as it contributes to the flow.

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This text presents some very relevant ideas like mental health, grief and loss of a family member and how these can be incorporated into writing.

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By Gregory Neri
This story is about Shorty, a young boy who does not live in a good part of town. He ends up getting tied up with the wrong people, and it does not end well.
This story presents the idea of irony and models for students how contextualize on different ideas and tie them to real-world events

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This book is a great story that shows the power of believing. I think that it could be used for all ages to show how to present a story, by adding images

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By Tom Hanks

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By Ibram X. Kendi
This story shows the reader how to use conventions while writing and presents an important debate in the nation today

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By Chris Van Allsburg
This novel presents things in a whole new way, absolutely no words. This shows students how much a picture can really say and how our own experiences can affect our interpretation of an image

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By Silvia Moreno-Garcia
This story shows the organization of a narrative fantasy, while promoting diverse cultures, by presenting Mayan cultural ideas and Mexican folklore.

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By Sabaa Tahir
This is a great story to present the organization of narrative fantasy while presenting the unfortunate truth of slavery and classism

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By Renée Ahdieh
This story conveys the voice of the author describing a young teenage girls plot to gain revenge on the Caliph of Khorasan, who marries a new bride every day, and by dawn he has killed her.

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From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars)

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From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars)

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Pierce Brown, Meg Cabot, Sabaa Tahir, Nnedi Okorafor, Renee Ahdieh
This book tells the plot of the first star wars movie from a variety of author's perspectives, and their own take-ways and thoughts on the movie

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By Sabaa Tahir
This story uses powerful word choice to convey the message about what home means when you don't fit in.

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By Alice Childress
This book is told from the perspective of a young, arrogant black teenager whose fragmented life and addiction to heroin lead him to deliquency

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By Rick Riordan
This fantasy book presents a nice flow when reading it and what effect the way you craft your sentences has on the reading

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By Becky Albertalli
This story shows the story of an LGBTQ+ teen and presents the story of a gay teen.

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By Traci Chee
This novel is about the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during WWII. The way the sentences are written creates a rhythmic flow while reading it.

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By Leah Johnson
This novel follows Liz Lightly, who has a plan to leave the small, rich, prom-obsessed town she lives in because she feels "too black, too poor, and too awkward" to live her best life there.

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By Nina LaCour
This story shows the use of conventions and how that improves our writing. Additionally, this novel tells the story of a college freshman who leaves everything behind after the death of her grandfather

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By Jason Reynolds
This novel written in free verse, still shows the importance of conventions across writing genres and styles.

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By Shaun David Hutchinson
This story shows how to craft your sentences to help contribute to the smooth flow of reading and makes it a joy to read.

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By Ibi Zoboi
This book tells the story of a young Haitian immigrant who is coming back to her country of birth, the U.S. The way the author creates and using certain phrasing allows the reader to create a smooth flow while reading.

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By Brian Selznick
This story is about a young boy in France who finds his purpose. The book is presented with interesting illustrations that help add to the context of the story and help the reader visualize what is happening. I enjoy this story, because it presents the interesting life of Hugo, who spends his life behind the walls of a Paris train station repairing the clocks. The way this young boy spends his days has always interested me.

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By William Shakespeare
This play published in 1597, presents the story of two Italian star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. This play introduces some unique and strong word choice that can help display the importance of the words chosen in writing. I think it is amazing that two families feuds could cause so much friction and deceit, that two people fell in love and died for that love.

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This text shows how what you hear from the page is important as it contributes to the flow. I think the whole plot of the hunger games trilogy as interesting, and has some hidden messages in it that are representative of society. One being classism. As you moved closer to District 1, the cities got nicer and the people were richer. Additionally, the way we idolize celebrities was represented in this story too.

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By John Boyne
This story tells the life of a young boy named Bruno, who is oblivious to the Holocaust or the Final Solution. All he knows is that he has to move out to the middle of nowhere with no friends, until he meets Shmuel, a boy behind a fence in stripped pyjamas. This story helps to paint the idea of innocence as a child.

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This text shows how to present your writing in a formal, clean cut way while also presenting interesting ideas

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By Lois Lowry
I enjoyed reading this book and watching the film. The society has all pain and suffering taken away and everyone is the same. The Giver is given the responsibility of storing all of the memory before the sameness. The hidden message here is that life is not complete without both good and bad experiences.

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This book is a great story that shows the power of believing. I think that it could be used for all ages to show ideas

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By Tom Hanks
This has been a favorite of mine since childhood, and really displays the power of believing.

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By Brian Selznick
This story is about a young boy in France who finds his purpose. The book is presented with interesting illustrations that help add to the context of the story and help the reader visualize what is happening.

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By John Boyne
This story tells the life of a young boy named Bruno, who is oblivious to the Holocaust or the Final Solution. All he knows is that he has to move out to the middle of nowhere with no friends, until he meets Shmuel, a boy behind a fence in stripped pyjamas. This story helps to paint the idea of innocence as a child.

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By Jeanne DuPrau
This story is about a post-apocalyptic society underground, ravaged by aging infrastructure and corruption. When the lights begin to flicker, two friends must find a way out.
This story is presented as a graphic novel, which models how to use pictures to enhance your writing.
I have enjoyed this book, and the way they were able to survive underground with the generator.

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By Jeanne DuPrau
This story is about a post-apocalyptic society underground, ravaged by aging infrastructure and corruption. When the lights begin to flicker, two friends must find a way out.
This story is presented as a graphic novel, which models how to use pictures to enhance your writing.

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By Marie Lu
This story shows how you can incorporate ideas and events from your own experience into your writing.

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By Gene Luen Yang
American Born Chinese consists of three separate tales that are tied together at the end of the story, presenting a different style of organization

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By Kwame Alexander
This story is written entirely in verse, which could be used to show how to incorporate poetry into writing. The format of this writing truly packs an emotional punch to the reader and really touches the heart.

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By Ruta Sepetys
WWII is drawing close, and thousands of refugees are on a trek towards freedom. This story shows how to use conventions and how it greatly impacts writing.

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By Tiffany Jackson
This tells the story of Mary Beth Addison, an African American teenager who has spent the last six of her 15 years in custody for allegedly murdering a white baby, Alyssa Richardson. The importance of conventions is still held in this novel, even though the message is powerful.

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This collection of mentor texts is designed to address students in late middle and high school. It contains texts that can help students with the 6+1 traits to improve their writing. By having mentor texts for students, I can model for them the different traits employed by a variety of authors. Additionally, many different ideas and topics are explored in the books this collection contains.

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This book shows how we can embed different ideas and message simultaneously into our writing.

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By John Greene

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What's the Range of Texts in the Collection?

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What's the Range of Texts in the Collection?

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This collection consists of texts written by a diverse range of authors from Anne Franks in the 1940s, to William Shakespeare in the late 1500s, to Kwame Alexander in 2014. There are also a wide range of ideas presented such as LGBTQ+, racism, war, love, fear, fiction, to dystopia. I believe that this library is a direct representation of my belief in equity. I want to provide my future students with an equitable educational experience, including a mentor library that will truly help them improve their writing and discover new ideas and perspectives.

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By William Shakespeare
This play published in 1597, presents the story of two Italian star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. This play introduces some unique and strong word choice that can help display the importance of the words chosen in writing